Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...push," they urged the marchers so that there would be no panic in the crowd. And "keep on the inside of the white line." they kept reminding everyone as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue...
Knowing themselves little, the people of Rules know those onto whom they push themselves even less. Nevertheless they act, without reflecting. The most assertive and idealistic of them is Andre Jurieu, the man who flew the Atlantic for a woman. It's significant for the mood and tendency of Rules that earlier in the depths of his love he talked of suicide-an act few of Renoir's characters consider...
...calls this the element of discontinuity. We must crack open the old forms and push on toward the future. Christ is both immanent and futuristic; here and to come. Any over-balancing ends in existentialist entrapment. If the old God symbols are dead, so is Sartre with his existentialist "angst." The "nowism" of existcutialism and death-of-godism trapped man in himself. There is no way out. Man was trapped building a world which wasn't going anywhere and hadn't been anywhere...
...think that dialectic would have served well as a way to push on from juxtaposition. We theologians and laymen need more than focus. We need to jump on a new level of thought. Discontinuity demands dialectic, which is properly the synthesis of converging ideas on a higher plane, Sypthesis is necessary when two camps such as "futurists" and "nowists" are battling for men's minds and souls. And synthesis demands dialectic-otherwise the combatants are doomed to a war of attrition when one isn't necessary...
Attorney General John Mitchell, who failed to catch Haynsworth's peccadilloes when he originally screened the judge, was expected to push hard for the confirmation to redeem his own prestige. Nixon men talk of "renewed efforts" on behalf of Haynsworth. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford revealed that he is considering bringing impeachment proceedings against liberal Associate Justice William O. Douglas. Douglas has been criticized for accepting money from a foundation that received some funds from gambling interests. Ford denied any retaliation against Haynsworth foes, but said that the same strict ethical standards applied to Haynsworth should apply...